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4 A.M.
Stein crept his hand over to the glock in his back holster, making sure it was loaded. The noise that he heard could have been anything, but parks at nighttime in this area were notorious for dangerous criminal exchanges. Slowly, he opened the car door, stalking closer to the source of movement. As he got closer, he squinted his eyes, trying to work out what he was looking at in the faint moonlight.
When he saw what it was, his heart dropped all the way to his stomach.
Two little kids huddled together on the slide, shivering and trying to keep warm.
After overcoming the shock of seeing two homeless children sleeping outside in early February fifteen years ago, Deputy Stein brought the kids over to the local police station where a social worker gently coaxed the story out of the older one. Introducing himself as Pesach Miller, the boy explained that several days before he and his sister had come home from school to an empty house. They later discovered that their mother had been submitted to the hospital after a depressive episode and that their father had subsequently abandoned them.
“We felt so abandoned, confused, and scared,” shares Yitzchok so many years later.
“We didn’t know where to turn.”
Several days later, the police department located a foster family who graciously offered to take the children in upon hearing their heartbreaking story. Years later, Pesach describes how grateful he and his sister were simply to have a warm bed to sleep in, something that many of us probably take for granted.
Today, Pesach is all grown up and has blossomed into a tremendous mentch and talmid chochom. Several days ago, he reached an exciting milestone in his life– He became a chosson.
But with no real parents to help on either side, the couple is stuck.
“After all that I have been through, it means everything to me to be able to create a home of my own, and finally have a family of my own,” shared Pesach vulnerably on a chesed fund page.
“But my parents cannot help us get married. I am turning to you and begging for your help. Please help me start this new chapter of my life with my kallah. You have no idea how much this means to us.”
Funds are being urgently collected by the Vaad HaRabbanim to help this amazing couple who financially are starting literally from zero. Those who wish to help a couple with no true parents in this world can do so by clicking here.
